Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #566 - Yoel Romero

Episode Date: March 12, 2018

Yoel Romero, a former olympian who won the silver medal in the 2000 Olympics as a member of Cuba's wrestling team, and current #1 contender in the UFC's Middleweight division, joins Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE in studio. This podcast is brought to you by: Hims - Go to ForHims.com/joey for a trial month of everything you need to keep your hair - for just $5 while supplies last.   FujiSports.com  - Use promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount on all the best jiu jitsu and martial arts gear.   Onnit.com. Use Promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout.   Recorded live on 03/11/2018.  

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Oh Shit, it's Johnny Kandala himself yo Romero The church of what's happened now, it's Monday morning the 12th or the 13th. It really doesn't matter I'm very excited to announce this the guest that we've been talking about it for a while My main man, Mr. Yoro Romero number one contender in the world Fighting for the championship June 8th and motherfucking Chicago to Windy City Thank you for coming to the show that's about Benigno show me man. Thank you so much. It's my pleasure. Thank you

I got a Lee. How you doing brother? I'm doing good. I'm pumped up There's a being in a room with two Cubans like I'm right I feel like I'm ready to go fight in the UFC if I had to We got you all rhymed up and stuff Listen, I'm not an MMA guy. I don't you know, I watch it. I'm a fan So what I wanted to do was leave it to the professionals tomorrow What I want to do with yo-oh is to ask him, you know, when you when you look at yo-oh go into the ring You see the superhuman

Dark-skinned kid that you're scared of but this is not what this is about Tonight we're gonna get to know who the hell yo-oh Romero is. Who's your king of yo-oh Romero king at compile? Well, a couple A person that was born and raised in a very humble neighborhood of the city of Pines del Río Called Cuba Libre Everyone knows him as a ranch. He's from there, he's from there I raised him like all Cubans. He's humble

Is in Sabato or Riendo, but how are you we are one dollar wall out one of the lotta He was raised like any other cuban he's saying that he was raised, you know poor no shoes playing in the fucking dirt You know, it's the humble, you know, the humble life like a every every every kids in Cuba They send for the every kids kids in Cuba, you know, I am not different for the kid in Cuba. I am the I am is like I stay all my life in my city, you know, and I stay with him my people, you know And the shoes I ruin and I play baseball no shoes

I played the ball, you know with my friend in Cuba. There's a very humble, you know No, no, no, no problem for that for them for the color for the for the for the people's blacks the people why you know Everybody is the same, you know everybody Take it the same water everybody drink the same water when they play in the baseball, you know That's just amazing time. That's what the people need it. The people need it the people For this for this for this time the people need it

Remember the time this time is the the most important. No, no, no problem No, no, no, no matter what the people is See you have a more more money about him and I know this is not important The most important is the relationship, you know, most everybody together everybody playing the same play and The same emotion the same time that is this is amazing time. How many brothers do you have? I have a three sister and four brothers and your father did what in Cuba? Yeah, my father's in Cuba. No, what does he do? My father is

Boxing boxing. Yeah, I'm at a boss and yeah, it's a he's the number three and in Cuba And the national team your father. Yeah. Yeah, and now but what does he do for a living now? Can look at see a boxing boxing box out my father. Oh, sir. Oh, yeah It a member of the keep a national He's then the national team the Cuban Olympic Center, you know, so he went to the Olympics to no no He'll go to the Olympics. He's the number three in Cuba. You know, the number three In a certain career Magnifico is already is a manifico boxers

Everybody know that the guy is The number one is the best and this division Jose Gomez Jose Gomez Amazing Amazing guy is the number one and the number two is a Bernardo Koma champion in the world, too and the number three is my father, you know, but is Maybe she did this

Two lines in front of him. How old were you when you first boxed? You know All the time I wanted to make it the box by my father no one, you know, my face and no, no is boxing is Is a very hot sport. I don't want to you you you follow my my footsteps, you know my way, you know, I don't want to you you follow my way you can You can do another another sport and now One coach for wrestling seen me and say you have a talent for wrestling, you know But I and try on the baseball to and try on them in many sport, but finally I

Make a wrestling, you know, this coach is a no no no come You you you family making boxing and wrestling you have a talent for For wrestling too, and that's what I make it wrestling, you know, so you started wrestling in Cuba now in Cuba Is there a high school? see In Cuba Cuba had System they have the name for this system is the pyramid system, you know, it's a pyramid Pyramid pyramid system, you know, it's a system that is a pyramid and then it works very well. It's a very good system

Donde los niños donde the kid make the sport very Bien cuando los niños son bien joven, you know, right they get you when you're young Yeah, when the kid is very young like a when I in the beginning I have eight years Oh, you know, you started when you were eight when I was eight years old So I'm gonna be sell a lucha and then vamos a poner when you get all the peanut the Rio goes up against come away like eso lo que pasa Ustedes van contra come away or see Es un sistema primero donde se hace por otra vez de barrio por otra vez de casa

Y entonces si tú vas ganando va subiendo escalones entiende y donde ya puede Later you can compete in national international, you know, like this and how did you get? When you were 18, what was your life like? Tenía 18 como la tu vida bueno ya cuando tenia when I have 18 years I stay in the Union national team I stay in the national team My life is different when I have a eight, you know, but No, no, no, no that my life

chain Little by little you know now Pasamos chamo en Cuba, you know se pasó mucho a man in Cuba There's a lot of people starving in Cuba they give you a certain amount of eggs every month and a certain amount of milk Because you were a wrestler. Did you get more food? Macomida So they treat you a little better they give you a little bit That's like my uncle. I'm sorry, but don't my uncle told me one time if the Omeon told me that

My cousin's a key whatever he goes they live like kings in Cuba They don't live like everybody else. Okay. Oh, you're a little kid. I ain't in Cuba. Yeah, it's not so much. I'm really star So the athlete has priority They give you milk that I'm lecher Where will they give you eggs? Like can you explain Why like why in in Cuba like in these small countries is it so important like why do they play such a huge important? on on and getting the best and and like giving them special treatment like

Like what like what is it about? Q like why in Cuba like the it seems like there's something about like it's it's a tough country to live in it A lot of people have certain feelings about that country Like why why do they take such a big importance on baseball is huge right like why is that such a huge thing there? And look at the guy that he wants to ask you Why is it so important in Cuba? Two questions Okay, I

Think The talent God give the talent the people and Cuba now now you can go Cuba and You can see many talent Because I think that's what I thinking. I think God give the talent for the for the sport in Cuba and for the people, you know Right now on the last time when I say in Cuba I see many people Come much ishi more talent to but I said what get people the party, you know

Um The other time it's a system the another point is the system with the Cuba habit for the for the sport, you know, it's Magnificent System that is the very they have it down to a side. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, and who are you? Magnificent System I said the body now when you're on a seat when I was a kid I was growing up And I met these guys when you were a car that I don't you're a car that I don't want to see you around you don't You know, I don't see a you don't

You may be here on King Cuba And you don't have the pink. I don't them and I don't want to go They would send you the train at least but This is true, you know, but This is the normal in the sport and the lie and the sport in the world, you know because United States take it For example, take it

Racing team take it the people and and send the the team for the Russia for the two or three months Every country do it is, you know every country do it is because I wanted a more experience. I want more Like to go up against different people Look Three or four five people in Brazil Is it four or five people for you take it three three Play very good for soccer That's a head talent. God gives the talent for the soccer, you know

So you take it three people or five people ten people for Jamaica for the for the For the track, believe me, maybe five or six Make it good Very good That's it. They the God gives the talent, you know, I mean look what the the baseball, you know, look at what the Cubans have done I mean Even before Castro, they would go down there for spring training Did you know that they're like players will go to Cuba to play against Cuban players to get some good in the summer

No No, because they wanted, you know metal sharpens metal, bro So they would go down there to train now. The other there's another side to this coin. Yo, well, there's a lot of people don't understand Cuba and these countries we don't have as many distractions You were fighting against the sun. Yes. There is no computer, there is no television, there is no distractions. No, no, no, no.

It's totally training. Training. Training. It's only training, so if I told you... Training, a student, you go to the school, return for the house or return for the room and you take the food and later you train again, again, two times you train in the day. Well, it's the pen, the all, you know, for the other, for the for the June, you know, the age, you know, it's dependent for the age. Now, did you live at the pyramid? Do you know

being a pyramid? Yes, you wouldn't be at your house no more. No, you go to the house only Saturday two days Saturday and Sunday and you go back for the for the for the school, you know, right, it's internal right there. And then because you were a wrestler, no service, you never went to a service. How old were you when you said that said no more Cuba? Why? Because I want to know more, more, more another possibility, more best life for my family, you know, I want to make it a MMA. I have a dreams, you know, a dream for my for my for my family, you know, I want to do not, you know, can make it a UFC, you know, can make it a UFC in Cuba.

See, you wanted to say, see, you wanted, see, you want to stay in good level in the war and then when you want to do something, you need to go, you know, you don't need to stay in this place because this place is the same is the best option for you, you know, it's out the Cuba, you know, in Cuba, you don't make it, you don't make it MMA, you know, so when you were in Cuba, when did you see MMA? How did you see MMA the first time? Well, in Cuba, I am, you know, in Cuba, the people were in MMA, right? They said that they sealed the signal. I see that the old school for MMA, you know, and it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

you were watching all that. How were you watching it? So people would go from Cuba would bring the tapes back to Cuba. When I saw this, I said, wow, I can, I can do this. I can do this. Really? You thought that way? So you're 32 years old, what do you do? What did you do? Yeah, I said, I said, well, yeah, this is my, my, my life outside of Cuba took that decision.

So once you made the decision, you told your wife you couldn't say nothing? I told somebody, you know, special people, whether they have a confidence in people, confident people, you know, I said, that's what I need to do for my life, for your life, for the life of my people, for, for my family. Maybe, I maybe, I maybe, You made triumphant? You, maybe you would have triumphant? Maybe I try, I try triumphant, maybe do it, maybe not, but but I'm going to leave life in the attempt on this, you know, that was my thought. It doesn't matter, no matter what what I do, if there's training, like crazy,

I'm going to do everything I have to do to achieve my dreams. It wouldn't be the first time I would do it. You were going to do whatever it took to achieve your dreams. You were going to do what you were going to do to be a champion. And don't say, you went to Germany to wrestle and you stayed? I go with the national team from Cuba, for the Grand Prix in Germany, in La Pisa, in La Ciudad, in the city for Lysin, Germany. And when I finish the tournament, I win the tournament, the Grand Prix, I win, and they say, okay, I call my brother, my little brother, stay in Germany, live in Germany, he's boxing. I call him and say, that's the time, I know we

want to go out for Cuba. He say, for sure? I say, out for sure. It's okay. I go with my brother. I know go back to Cuba. And I make it, in Germany, have a wrestling competition for the Bundesliga. It's a Germany Bundesliga. I continue wrestling, you know? And one day I see competition for MMA and say, when I go, I go, I know no training, never in my life I train, but I fight. I fight, I win. Yeah, I continue. That's it. And from Germany, how long did you stay in Germany? For six years. Six years? Yeah. You get there, but you're not there to reunite with your family. How long did it take? In Cuba, 11 years. 11 years without your wife and your children? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

La mamá de mi hijo, yo tengo tres hijos, I have three kids, but my son is staying in Cuba. This is different in mom. Right. You know, nunca más regresé con ella. Right. Now, how long did it take your, to senor Aori, to see her to come over? Sí, no. Esa es la mamá de mi hijo. Es la que yo conocí en Yemen. Oh, okay. You met her in Germany. So she's German? Sí. Es cubana alemana. Oh, new? Sí, sí, sí, cubana alemana. She's German Cuban, Lee. So can you guys talk about, like, do you feel trapped in Cuba? Because, like, you hear these stories about people leaving Cuba, and it doesn't, to me, it doesn't seem like you don't like Cuba. It seems like you have a lot of love for Cuba, but like, like, what the emotion is to like, to want to leave.

You have so much love for it, but you have to get out. I love Cuba. Yeah. I have a passion. I have a love. They really love for my country. But, you know, see, you ask the people, when the people go there for the, for the, for the exodus, for many exodus in the war, when the people go out for the country, you, you ask for the people, you love, you, you country, everybody say, I love my country. You know, I never hear nobody say, I not love my country. This is different. I love my people. I love my country. I love the people when I, when they, when they play with me, when they are in kid, you know, I love, I continue because when I go Cuba right now, when they go, when they, now I go about Cuba, I cry. I cry because I have,

you know what I'm saying, man? It's, come on, man. It's part of you. Yeah. You know, many history, many history, you know, you never forget this because it's, it's your essence. See, you say, the people, not you. See, somebody say, I not love my country. You know, nothing, you know, nothing. You, you, you, you know, how do you say that? You're nothing. You're an empty man if you don't love your country. You don't love your country. You're, you, you're, you, you're not a nobody. Not a null. But I think it's, I don't know, at least for me, I think it is different. I love America, but whenever I hear stories about people, maybe it's not Cuba. Maybe it's other countries.

I can't, like you must be really torn. Like as a kid, did you think you were going to leave Cuba or, like I'm, I'll never leave Cuba. a child who was never, never, you never, when you were born, to this day, Boya Vivir, when you born, you think like this, I born here, I'm dead here, in house, in the same house, because you born, and you see left, and you see right, you see your mom, and you see your dad, you see your sister, you see your brother, you see your family, and you say this is my kingdom, this is only what I need, and it's in your life, and you mind, only you thinking I born here, I'm dead here, with my people, you don't think you want to go out another house, you think of this later, in years,

but not at the same time, that's the same what happened in the life of the people, when you, when you grow, when you grow, and now you see the life, the life push your life, and now you need push, you need to push your life, see life push you, you need to push your life, for better, you know, better and better, because that's, that's the way, you know, and then you need to move out like that, and now you need to move the house, for the house that your family, that your mom and your dad, because now you have a woman, and now you have a, you have a see, you have a daughter, you have a kid, you need it, you need to move, but you need to move because you want it more better for your kids, not for you, for your kids, for your family, you understand,

and you don't think about another house, you go out, maybe another country, another city, another language, another culture, but you need to go, no matter what, but you need to go, you understand, you were stuck in Cuba, bro, you had nowhere to go, even though you were loved, you have your family there, you want more, you want fucking more, that's what I'm talking, that's what I say, when the life push you, you need to push you, to push the life, si la vida te empuja, tu empuja la vida, si la vida no te esta dando, lo que tu crees que te mereces, o lo que tu necesitas para darle a tu familia para que estes

mejor, tu tienes que salir a buscar eso donde estes. Yeah, so what he's saying is, if life pushes you, you gotta fucking push back, you know, we get stuck in our own fucking mud and sorrow, and you have to go to where you could grow, you know, and we've all been through, you know, this is a situation, it's called sacrifice, what we've spoken about on this show a thousand times, you know, I have a 27 year old daughter I have no conversation with, you know, it's me every fucking day, but guess what, I was going nowhere in Boulder, I wanted to be a fucking kid, in just a different manner, my mom did what you did, you know, me and my time in school, I was born, she took me back, my sister was still in school,

to stay with a grandmother. And that summer Castro said, no, see, yes, this, that. And next thing you know, my sister grew up in Cuba. She didn't have the same opportunities I had. Do I live with that fucking guilt every fucking day? You know? But it's like when you're there, yeah, whenever I watch you fight,

you'll think of me in mana. When you develop a lot, when I watch you fucking fight. Because it's like, I know where you're coming from. You're still not coming. You understand? You know suffering, you know it all. You know suffering that you had. History.

Because everyone has it, the Cuban has it. You know how many Cubans left their fucking loved ones behind. But they didn't leave them behind. Like I'm leaving you behind. I left you behind because I want to do something better with my life. That's what you want to do, something better with your life.

So, you know what, Maria? The first MMA fight? Ganate. The first one, knock out or? Knock out. Okay. Knock out. And don't say how many amateur fights did you have?

No, no, I didn't do any amateur fights. No amateurs. You went right into fucking MMA. I did it out of MMA, yes. You needed money, no time to fuck around. No, the problem is that when I go, they say you can't do amateur because you have a Olympic World Championship background.

You can't do amateur. You say, what? Yeah, you need to go to a professional fighter. You say, oh my God, and I say, okay, I go. That's it. I never do amateur. I never, I can't train. I never train.

You never train. And then train, I go to fight. So, you took the couple tools you had from the house from fucking? I'm learning now. You're still learning? I'm still learning. That's what I say to people.

I'm a pioneer in this. I'm learning, you know. I'm learning and I've learned that it's always good to learn every day. It's always good to learn something every fucking day. I feel the same way. Stop learning the day you die. The last day you stop learning

is the day you fucking die. And you have to have the mind, as the great architect says. The mind as a child. You have to have a mind like a child that in many ways, like a sponge. You know, Lee's getting into comedy right now. And I called him last night and this morning to explain to him that he's living this life now.

That he's never done this before. He's doing stand-up comedy, you know? And I told him, no matter where this goes, no matter where this takes you, this journey that you're doing, it's gonna open up your eyes. Even if you don't stay a comic, you're still gonna do something, you know?

And that's what I talk about in this podcast every day, that sometimes you want your life to change, but you don't know how to fucking change it. You gotta make a move. You gotta make a move. And that's why I got the utmost respect for these guys. I had an opportunity that I could have been him. I could have been his fucking neighbor.

You'll put yourself in the middle of your heart. You understand? And cool. Yo, when my mother died, I fucking threw my life away. But banked the annual, you understand? Yeah. But I took it back.

And it was like Cuban upbringing. It was what I learned from a Cuban house. We were watching videos before this. We were getting fired up. And we were watching Wa-Wang Ko videos. This lady came on and he was calling her a G that she's the type of woman that if she has a beef, she sends the son to go down there

and kill the fucking dude. That was the mentality in Cuba. La mentalidad de tinta, you understand? We play for keeps. Cuando yo voy a jugar, cuando yo voy a hacer algo, es para ganar. No es para... I don't go there to fuck around, to the giggle.

That was what was given to me from the Cuban side. That was tu sala, la mentalidad. Yo siempre hablo la mentalidad del tipo que viene de otro país aquí. Our mentalidad is a little different. We play harder, you know what I'm saying? We ain't got time to be on the fucking phone y jugando. No, no, no.

Yo tengo que siempre estar haciendo algo en... Y todos sus años que trabajo yo y haciéndolo y todo eso. Mira, yo me voy bicómico, I became a comic. Con todo eso. Yo fui preso, with all that madness of going to jail and all of that, I still became a fucking comic. And it wasn't because I was better than anybody.

No soy mejor que cualquier one. Lo que me enseñaron was what I learned as a young man, as a Cuban. The things, the lessons my mother instilled in me. You know, before the show, we were talking about knowing how bad that guy's allowed. That means don't come to this house hit. Yeah.

Like if you throw two punches and the kid throws three punches, you came home hit. In a Cuban house, that's not allowed. That's not even fucking comprehended. Even if you have to go back and hit him with a fucking chair, at least you didn't stay hit. That mentality is a fucking crazy mentality. But it worked for me, you know.

We were listening to music and he said to me that I was old school. He goes, Joey's old school. And he was breaking my heart saying that this doesn't even exist in Cuba no more than now with Tregatone and rap music. I see my, I see him playing heavy metal guitar and the whole fucking deal.

I'm like, what the fuck happened? So it's a, it's, it's, so six amateur fights. What one of they are more, when'd you go first? Strike force? Strike force, man. Don't we can put strike force in, man? Yeah, strike force. And what they are more famous.

Straight from Germany? You went to strike force? Si. Right. I'm straight, I went straight to strike force. There was a very difficult fight, a champion who had finished fighting. He was like three months that I had lost the title,

Rafael Fayao. Rafael Fayao, yes. So when I say thing, let me tell you something. I say, let's see what I say. Everything you let, you need to see positive, not negative. I lose, but, but I see everything positive. You know what? Because I win this fight.

The next, you know who it is, whether the next fight? Sanderson. Sanderson is the champion of the strike force. Right, right. You know what happens when I fight with this guy? I know, that's it. I don't have a spirit for this fight. I say, thank God I lose this fight.

Because I win, I go to fight with the, he's making me destroy me. Maybe I'll destroy him. Sanderson, maybe I'll destroy him, I mean. Because he had, he had it, until now, recently. He had a Moledora hit. He had a lot of experience, he was younger still.

And I came without experience. And you had no experience. No, he was going to kill me. He was going to kill you. Yes, and he was going to, as we say, he was going to fuck my career. He would have fucked up your career. Yes, a hit that gave me the jaw,

and then my jaw was not going to serve for anything else. I said, thank God, thank God for this. Thank God, because if you were to beat Rafael Fajar, you would have had a fight with no experience. Yes. Who did you fight after Rafael Fajar? No, after I went to UFC, I was two years without a fight. Because I had a surgery on my neck.

And God was good, God was merciful, God, as always, God made UFC see grace in me. And because it was my first fight and only fight in Stryphus. After that, two months later, Stryphus disappeared. UFC took Stryphus, and I went to UFC with the surgery. With the next surgery. And he was going to have the surgery. You were about to get the next surgery before you went to the UFC.

He was going to have the surgery, and UFC said, OK, he's coming to lose a fight. Lucas, he's coming to lose a fight for Nacau. And now he's going to have a surgery that he doesn't know if he's going to be able to fight. And UFC said, OK, I pay him the surgery, and I take it. So you got knocked out, you were going to have the next surgery, and the UFC still signed you and they paid for the surgery. Yes.

And he took it like that. And I was like two years without a fight, recovering. After the surgery, because it was a process. It was a process. It was a process. But after I got surgery, I only took surgery and my recovery was four months. So after the operation, it was four months. After four months, I started training.

That usually took a year to start running. It takes a year, usually, to even start running. You started after four months. And I, four months ago, was already giving him the impact, giving him jabs. You were hitting pads and stuff like that. I remember that he was hitting me, it seemed like he wanted to hit me very hard. He was hitting me very hard. Because I couldn't be doing that, I was doing it because I was the support of my family.

I said, I fought for this to fight. And then after the operation, after I fought, I started training for four months. And after I started training for four months, for the seven months, it was that UFC loved me for the first fight. So after seven months from your surgery, the next surgery. The UFC called you for your first fight. And who was it against? And the fight was with a click for a star.

Okay. It was the first fight of the night. The preliminary card. Yes, I was the first fight. Not even, you were like the fucking under the undercard, unlike FX fucking 3. I was the first fight of that night. And thanks to God, I was knocked out of the night. So you got knocked out of the night?

I got knocked out of the night, and then it all fucking started after that. Yes. And we're in this and we're still in this. And you still take the Cuba. You would love to go back to Cuba someday. I love Cuba. I loved Cuba until the day I die because I'm Cuban. And who's left in Cuba?

Your father? I have a son. I have a son. My son, my father, my mom, sister and brothers, friends. And they're all there. And my history. Your history? Yeah, my history.

Because even though I'm Cuban, I'm still Cuban and I'm still making history for Cuba. So even though you're out of Cuba, you're still making history for Cuba and Cuba is still in your heart and whatnot. You're a bad motherfucker, sir. Thank you so much. I'm going to ask you a question here. Because I wanted to ask you more questions about Cuba and stuff like that. Did you ever meet Fidel?

What? Did you ever meet Tafidel? No shit. How old were you? When you met him? 22 years old. Were you already like a big time wrestler? Yeah.

You had already been to the Olympics at 22? No shit? Yeah. At 22? Yeah. 22. So you were already like fucking living good? Yeah.

I earned champion when I was 21 years old. Olympic fucking champ, 20 years old, Jesus Christ. I remember when I won the World Championship in Ankara, I had 21 years old, it was in 1999. It was when I won the World Cup in Ankara, but I had already had other medals there. You had other world medals at that point? Yeah. In 97, I got silver. In 98, I got bronze.

In Teran, I got bronze. And in 99, I got gold. And in the Olympics, I got silver in 2006 and then I got bronze in 2007. That's fucking amazing. What did Fidel say to you? I don't know. What did he say to you when he met you? Congratulations.

Yeah, he said, hey, congratulations, Jorah. I am, everybody know, the people who he know me, he know what I say is the truth. I am for the, for the, for the, for the, for the, for all the sport in Cuba, for the Comunidad de los Reputistas. For all the athletes in Cuba. For all athletes in Cuba. For many years, I am staying every time the most best 10 sport for all athletes in Cuba. You're the top 10 athletes in Cuba.

Along with the boxers and baseball. What else is big in Cuba, baseball, boxing? The most important is the national sport in Cuba is baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Yeah. And nobody in your family play baseball? No.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. A prize. A prize. A prize. He's a lot of talent. To be a baseball player. It's tough.

It's tough, it's tough. It's tough. It's tough. That's the, that's the home ground. That's what God makes him. He makes a lot of him. What does it say to you, Joelle, when you were growing up, because you said to me that Cuba has changed a lot?

When did it start changing in your eyes? You know, when I met my cousins, it was maybe eight years ago. And a song remains, the Led Zeppelin came on on the fucking, when we were in Cantor's, that song, Stay Where They Have It, and the song, Americana came on. And they were singing it in Spanish. Yeah.

You may say, I'm here, but how did you get that, how did you hear this? You may say, I don't get one people in the neighborhood, a guy in the neighborhood had a cassette of Led Zeppelin. He can look on the other side of the house. It's not like that no more. No, no, no, no, no. Is that what it used to be when you remember it like that?

Yeah, you know, yo escuché historias de eso. No la viví como tal, yo tengo 42, 41 años. No la viví como tal, pero si sé de esas cosas. Pero hoy en Cuba, en Cuba, soy de todo tipo de música. Soy de música rap, de JZ, de todo mundo. So if I'm driving down the street in Cuba, I'm gonna listen to fucking rap music.

Yeah, it's no matter. The government don't say no more, nothing, nothing. No internet still though. ¿Cómo? No internet, no area. Sí, hay internet. Oh, there is internet. Sí, en algunos lugares hay internet,

si hay internet en Cuba, sí hay. Sí hay. Los internet. Sí, tienen posiciones en lugares, pero sí, hay internet. La gente se sienta en un café, like a café, y hay un café y tienen internet. Your family have a computer? Sí, mi familia tiene un computer.

So your family's doing good, no problems, everybody's helping. I thank God, I thank God, God gave me the opportunity for the help, my family, my family, stay good. I say thank you God. You know, Joel, like I told you when I met you earlier, that whenever, like I had to really get ready for this,

like because, I had to get ready to talk to you, because I'm a comic, I'm a funny guy for what I do to pay for it, but I have a little bit of sadness in my heart. I have a little bit of sadness in Spanish, you know? Tristesa. Tristesa.

It's normal, it's normal because you're human. But I have una tristesa that, like I feel guilty at times, but at the same time, siento algo, I always feel something. It's normal, I can understand you because, that's what happened for me too. Yo no me tengo tristesa. When you, when you,

cuando tú dejas atrás cosas. But I didn't leave shit, Joel. Yo me fui a los tres años, I was three years old. But it's normal. All I remember of Cuba is a fucking beach. But it's just no matter because that is, do you know the history of the Moises in the Bible? Yes.

That's it. It's the same. It's the same. Moises, se fue, Moises, he don't remember nothing about the family. You go, you leave the Cuba when you have a three years old. But Moises leave, the moment taken, the Moises put in the Moise in the canasta.

In Egypt, you know? In Egypt. Yeah, Moises tenía si acaso un año. He was a year old. One year. But inside, in the spirit, in the, como se dice alma. In the soul. In the soul, the Moise,

he loved the people, they do the people. It's the same, bro. What's the story, Lee? It's the story of Moises. His, the Jews were slaves in Egypt. His mother, I think, had a baby with the king, right? Yeah. The Pharaoh.

And that wouldn't be allowed. So the mother put him in a little read little baby carriage and put him down the Nile River. And he got adopted by the Pharaoh's family. And he had a brother. But when he got older and he escaped, he escaped like the burning bush. He found the burning bush.

And I think he got in trouble because he stopped an Egyptian guard from hitting a Jewish slave. So he, so that's, but he always knew, even though he was raised as an Egyptian royalty, he couldn't let that happen. He admired that an Egyptian was hitting a Jew, an Israeli.

And in his soul, in his spirit. And it's all he knew he was doing. He felt bad for two things. One, because a human being was hitting another. But also because he felt that those people were meat from his meat, you know? And that's the same thing that happens to you. You feel sad because you feel that something from you

left him behind. I do. I fucking feel terrible. I feel, I feel terrible because I know that you said, okay, well, you know, you know, I had my own fucking setbacks. Like when I talk to my sister on the phone, you know, I don't know what to say to her.

No, I don't know what to say to her because I never really met her and I know her life, her mother left and told I was coming back. Sometimes, you know, sorry. Sometimes you don't need to say nothing because un gesto habla más que mis palabras. You know what I'm saying? A lo mejor tú la ves y no tienes palabras que decirle,

pero la brazas y lloras y ya le dijiste todo lo que tenías que decirle. You know what I'm saying? ¿Qué le puedes decir tú? Yeah, what can I tell her? Tú no tienes nada que decirle, pero si tienes que hacerle, tienes que abrazarla, porque llevas all day. 55.

55. I haven't seen her in 52 fucking years. Ella es mayor o menor que tú? Mayor. Entonces tú la dejas, tú por 52 años no la has abrazado. No. You know what I'm saying? Que tú le puedes, tú por 52 años no le vas a...

For 53 years. Entonces por 52 años tú no la has dicho, te amo, tú no la has dicho, te extraño, tú por 52 años no la has abrazado, tú no necesitas decirselo ahora, tú necesitas abrazarla por todo el tiempo que tú no lo has hecho. That's it. That's it, so I shouldn't feel guilty?

Yeah. It's a good fucking thought. I always felt guilty, I just really do. I never talked about it on the podcast, because it never really came up before. And that's why whenever I'm around, like in 85, when I really learned the pain of what was going on in Cuba, it just fucking killed me.

I didn't know that you lived on three eggs a month. I didn't know that, you know, that I went to a coffee from the same filter for fucking a month. I didn't know these things, Joel. You know, sabía que había eso en Cuba. I took Cuba was a fucking party. I didn't know que había mucho sufrimiento, mucho, you know, sadness.

You know what I'm saying? I had no idea until I met those people in 85. You know, when I was growing up, everybody hated fucking Fidel. When you're metáclean, you know, when I was growing up, you couldn't even mention fucking Fidel, and you didn't see it. Ni lo podían ni desí lo compadre.

Said that they didn't even see me, I ain't. You know, and then over the years, like here, like in Cuba, it slowed down a little bit. It's more accepting locuano. But I had the same, you know, and coyote or what do they do when they get together and talk about Fidel all fucking day long, and dientero a la de Fidel, y como era en Cuba.

It's too late. You're in the United States. But you know, the humans, that's the most, the most problem with the human having inside in the spirit. The people, the human don't want to lose, don't want to forget the past, you know. You need to say, como se dice perdonar?

Forgive. You need to forget the people, you know. You need to forget and forget. Tu necesitas olvidar y perdonar, you know. Forgiving, forget. You know. Because el odio te va con el peor, la peora enfermedad es el odio.

No, no, I know that. You know. I was telling somebody that day, cuando no tiene el odio en your heart. Estás muerto. Anger in your heart, you're not going to grow. You're not going to grow until you let that shit go, and that's what happened with me.

Por 20 años estaba bravo, como está yo. Como yo, le va a quitar la madre. How's God going to take a child's mother? You know, I was raised Catholic, weh, yo creo en Dios, yo creo en Santa Barbara, yo creo en todo mundo. Y es una forma, tu sabes, que nacimos y por una ley, por una transversión,

debemos demorir, entiende. Y es, y vamos a pasar por eso todos, entiende. Y no es que Dios tomo esa decisión. Fumo nosotros quien tomo la decisión de apartarnos de Dios y que por ende departarnos de Dios, venga a esa penalidad que es morir. Es una cosa normal, me entiende. Morirse es una cosa normal

después de esa transgresión que tuvo el ser humano. Entiende. Por esa transgresión es normal enfermarse. Por esa transgresión es normal tomar catarrro que te venga dolor de cabeza, que te venga un dolor de rodilla, que te duele un dedo, entiende. Que tengas tos por esa transgresión. Es normal, entiende.

Como también es normal otras cosas, no. Que haya sanidad, que haya cura para eso, también. But there's sanity in this cure. Let me ask you this last question. That's it, brother. At Dia Ocho de Junio, that's it. You're fighting for the championship. Thank you, God, yes.

Thank you, God, yes. How do you feel? I feel blessed. I feel ready. I say, Dios. I say, God, thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for giving me this talent. Give me...

Tú me has puesto en esta encomienda y la tomo con mucho amor y con toda la... con toda la certeza de que estoy aquí porque tú me has puesto. Y... Llévame que yo iré. How are you going to be different this time for Whitaker? How are you going to be different this time? I have a lot of money.

A lot of money or you have a lot of tools in your chest? No, no, no, no. Como tú has said, tí, tóra. No, money. No, no, no. That's joking. That's joking. Tienes que pagar. La gente tiene que pagar para ver qué es lo que va a pasar. They got to pay to see what's going to happen.

Ok, I'm a manager. Si quieren saber esto, tienen que pagar. I just want to know... Para que vean qué es lo que va a suceder. Tú te sientes bien. About this fight, you ready? You're healthy. Pregúntela a la gente.

I was going to take you to eat, but I don't want to get in trouble to fucking make weight. You know what I'm saying? I was going to take them to eat, but I don't know where they'll book out. I want to eat them to make weight. So we got to start now. Tú sabes, todos los días son días diferentes, ¿no? Every day is different. Yes it is.

Pero confío en Dios que ese día voy a estar como me siento, no como me siento ahora, voy a estar mejor. Porque ahora me siento bien, ahora me siento, siento... ¿Qué tú pesa ahora? Ahora, dos ocho. Those two 108 pounds. That's where you walk around and that's where you basically walks around it. That's not bad.

Dos ocho. Two eight. And you're already working out again? Yes. You started working out already? Yeah. He never, let's look at him. He never stops working out.

But what happens to you? Because you talked about that first loss and how you're looking back, you're happy about it. Do you take losses now a little bit more seriously? Because of people like Joey who, like you have more than fans. Like we talk about we have families. You have the Cuban people behind you. Do you take that loss to Whitaker more seriously than other fighters take losses? You fight for everything involved.

That's the type of guy you are. When you lose, do you take a fight that seriously? Or do you look up and say thank you God for giving me an opportunity another day to fucking live? And bitch, I'll be back. He is like this. Just like that. That's the attitude you got to take. I can tell you right after his first loss with Whitaker.

I saw him right afterwards. He had his wife, his daughter, hand in hand. They're all walking together. And I looked around and I'm like, okay, I'm fine. I'm great. I looked at him. It was the first time I ever see a fighter that okay with everything. I said, are you sure?

He goes, everything is great. Don't worry. You have a good attitude, Joel. And that's because of your humble beginnings. And that's why you have it at the Duga Duga Inn. And it's a lot of ways. I mean, what did you do? Can you tell me?

It's something of pride sometimes. You know what I'm saying? Because that's what I wanted to tell you. You talk about my attitude, but I'm seeing that the same attitude I have is the attitude that you have. Yeah, I have the same attitude. It's very powerful. You know, I'm not going to stop. I like that people tell me I can't do anything.

It's like I can't do anything. When I see a naked woman, my dick don't get hard. And you tell me I can't do something. That's when my dick gets hard. You understand me? That's when I can't sleep at night. And that's what I have that you have that it's when they can't tell you, you can't do something. Yeah.

That's a fucking beautiful feeling. Listen, brother, I want to do some shout outs real quick and we'll get you the fuck. Are you hungry? Oh, yeah. Salads only. Just salads. That's it. I got you on Weight Watch tonight.

Chicken breast and salad. That's it. Come on, Joe. Come on, Joe. I can't. If I give you Cuban food, bro, I would do what he says, Joe. Yeah. Show them.

Tell them about what's your favorite meal that you want. Show them the picture. Show them the video. Let me see. Let me see. I'm going to give him some shout outs while he's finding it. Jordan Wales. I don't know what the fuck this name is here.

Eric Thompson, my man, Bob Lingus, Chris Bardwell, Christopher Walford, Joe Willett, B.J.J., and below average, Joe, I love you, motherfucker, as always. Show them what you want. Oh. He told me about this and I tried to move to Cuba. I said, get him up in Miami, buy it to me. Oh, my God. Me, too.

Me, too. Wait till he talks. He dreams about this shit. No, no, no, no, no. Listen what he wants, Joe. This is what he wants. What? That's what he wants, Joe.

And he can move up to Miami so he can eat that every day. Play the video. No. No, no, no. Ah, mira lo que anda él hacer. But you know what? I love this. I love this shit.

How could you not look at it? Oh, man, ooh. Oh. Oh. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man, oh, man. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man, oh. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.

Mira pa'ca. Oh, man. You go to Miami? I've never been. Oh, man. Oh, man. You didn't go, bro. I won't come back.

Casa Gu, man. That's a big problem, believe me. Oh. Look at it. Oh, and they told him about putting my dead buck when let's check on the salad. Let's go Let me go we got to figure out what the fuck is oh what time is no coach need to open to Lee I'll look it up. Oh my god. It's what is it right now? See what time she's open to it's 837. What times no coach need to open to He like we had a

Rudy stars on and he would tell you told us about putting like what is it butter in the in the coffee Condemn Yeah Now when he came from Cuba, what's your favorite dessert? Flan or Natalia Me now Me Say it in English say in English. I don't know. All right. Tell me make condense. Yeah condensed milk. Let's go on this side

Come a lot with ice cream. Yeah ice cream with ice cream. Oh And then you put condensed cream on the milk cookies. What kind of cookies is a Chocolate chocolate chip cookies Jesus Christ Joel and you sprinkle it around You need it. Believe me. You needed it Oh, come on, I'll let you go inside a lot of complete. Oh the whole can. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Yeah Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah, you need and you put it this in the microwave. Oh, you put the microwave Jesus Christ And and and after

You need it the cool sandwich the human sandwich afterwards Like this human sandwich Is that what you eat at when you're after you weigh in like when Come on man, get out of here. What time is it? What you need? Let me give you guys All right, I'm gonna give a shout out to my people fuji fuji sport g's fuji g's sport I don't even know what it is If you're an a5 or an a6 you're a fat fuck you're looking for a g fuji's the way to go

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